She was the second wife of Priam, to whom she bore 19 of his 50 sons.   She witnessed her sons and her husband killed, her infant grandson murdered, herself and her daughter enslaved.   She was assigned to Odysseus at the division of the spoils of Troy.   When she learned that her last surviving son Polydorus had been murdered by King Polymestor, she and her women murdered Polymestor's children in his sight and then blinded him. 

[解說]

1.      “She was the second wife of Priam, to whom she bore 19 of his 50 sons”：她是 Priam 的第二個妻子，她給他生了五十個兒子中的十九個。

2.      “She witnessed her sons and her husband killed, her infant grandson murdered, herself and her daughter enslaved”：她目睹她兒子與丈夫被殺死，她的嬰兒孫子被謀害，她自己和女兒們被奴役。 “witness”：親見、目睹。她的嬰兒孫子 (infant grandson) 指 Hector 的兒子 Astyanax。 Troy 被攻陷後，他被從城牆上丟下致死。

3.      “She was assigned to Odysseus at the division of the spoils of Troy”：在分配 Troy  的戰利品時，她被指定給 Odysseus。 “spoils”：戰利品。 “be assigned to”：被指定給 …。

4.      “When she learned that her last surviving son Polydorus had been murdered by King Polymestor”：當她得悉她的最後存活下來的兒子 Polydorus 已經被 King Polymestor 殺害時。

5.      “she and her women murdered Polymestor's children in his sight and then blinded him”：她和她的婦女們當著 Polymestor 的面謀殺了他的兒子，而然後把他弄瞎。 “in one's sight”：當著某人的面、令他看見。 

　

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